a warm welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i m max foster. just ahead on cnn newsroom those are the white things and the gray in the middle, that is where the smoke is. elderly couples behind me, they can barely walk and now they are standing in lines for ten hours? investigators sat down with rudy giuliani who was representing former president trump and helping him file a lot of challenges to overturn the 2020 election. with yevgeny prigozhin now believed to be in belarus, questions still remain about what his ultimate goals were when he undertook his insurrection over the weekend. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is thursday, june 29. in the midwest u.s., millions will be waking up to unhealthy air quality level in the coming hours. chicago experienced the worst air quality in the world 00 wednesday. smoke from the canadian wildfires is blanketing dozens of states from the midwest to the east